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How I center down during Quaker Meeting for Worship

Posted on February 1, 2009December 4, 2023 by

It is always useful for me to learn how other Quakers get themselves into the meditative state that we call “centering down.”  When Quakers gather during our Meetings for Worship, we are seeking to be in a calm, quiet, reflective, receptive state.  In our rushed, complicated lives, achieving this state of “expectant waiting” is not…

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“Pray for Me, You Wrote” (poem)

Posted on January 10, 2009 by

Another old poem of mine has been springing to my mind, as of late. From one of my doubting, wandering phases, called "Pray for Me, You Wrote." [CC-licensed image by Steven Fernandez] Pray for Me, You Wrote Pray for me, you wroteUnawareOf my broken beads and lipsThat now only spit and chewSchmooze and curse

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Holding each other in the Light

Posted on December 7, 2008 by

One of my favorite Quaker practices is during Meeting for Worship when we allow time for people to share particular situations or people that they want the Meeting to "hold in the Light."  At Brooklyn Meeting, this happens at the end of Meeting for Worship, when the person sitting "head of Meeting" welcomes anyone to…

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A History of the Jazz Split

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